Bill Gates topped the list of “50 World’s Wealthiest People”

As per the list released by wealth-tracking website Wealth-X in collaboration with Business Insider, Co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, sat down again in the top slot of 50 wealthiest people in the world list with a net worth of enormous $87.4 billion.

• Bill Gates was followed by founding chairman of clothing retailer Inditex, Amancio Ortega of Spain with net worth of $66.8 billion while Warrant Buffett listed at 3^rd rank with net worth of $60.7 billion.
• There were only 4 female billionaires in the list, among them, Alice Walton, Walmart heiress, was the wealthiest woman with a net worth of $33.2 billion and 15^th
• The oldest billionaire is L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt (93) with a net worth of $29 billion. She was ranked 17^th.
• The youngest billionaire is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (31) with a net worth of USD 42.8 billion and was ranked 8^th.

Among Indians
3 well known Indian names listed in the wealthiest people list viz. Mukesh Ambani with net worth of USD 24.8 billion and was ranked at 27^th place.

• He was followed by Azim Premji, who was ranked at 43^rd position with net worth of USD 16.5 billion and Dilip Shanghvi with assets worth of USD 16.4 billion and was ranked 44^th.

Here is the list of Top 10 Richest people in World

As per the list, the United States is home to 29 billionaires, only 4 billionaires from China and 3 from India made the top 50.

• At least $14.3 billion is required to mark the name in the list.
• Wealth-X collects information on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people by tracking each person’s assets, investment performance and other factors.